Aureliano Blanquet

Aureliano Blanquet (1849-7 April 1919) was a general of Mexico who served as Minister of Defense under President Victoriano Huerta from 1913 to 1914. He was one of the major villains of the Mexican Revolution.

Biography
Aureliano Blanquet was born in 1849 in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. In 1911 he was made commander of the garrison of Puebla, where he killed 46 German and Spanish expatriates, women, children, and Maderistas on 12 July 1911. Francisco Madero later hugged him and forgave him, but he led the Ten Tragic Days uprising against Madero in 1913, betraying him and killing him. In October 1913 he was made Minister of Defense of Mexico by Victoriano Huerta and was later named Vice-President. In July 1914 he left Mexico with Huerta after the fall of the Huertista government, but in 1919 he returned from exile to help Felix Diaz fight Venustiano Carranza. Blanquet commanded rebel troops at the Battle of La Barranca de Chavaxtla in Veracruz, but he was killed there on 7 April 1919.